Best 132 quotes in «anxious quotes» category

I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.

In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.

I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

I tend to have more anxious dreams where I'm late getting to places. That's definitely a recurring dream; I hate being late to places.

It was a film that I knew, that I had seen, that I was familiar with, but I wasn't anxious about it at any point during the screening. I snoozed twice, and this is something I couldn't have imagined that I would feel detached, as I did with this film [Certified Copy].

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

It makes me . . . anxious . . . to be away from you.

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.

I used to think that the times when you don't work, you should be anxious and constantly by the phone and putting so much pressure on yourself, but I've really learned that all the experiences we have you can bring into the next job. So it's making sure your brain and body are being stimulated so you can bring something new to the next role.

I've been a little haphazard about how nude I get, and the only thing that keeps me from getting anxious about it is that I've had complete control over it.

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

Life's too short for anxious score-keeping

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you." I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

Time flies when you are anxious!

There's Pam watching anxiously. She doesn't look anxious though.

The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything.

This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.

We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.

We're not anxious to play L.S.U. again.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

...and I shut off my anxious heart and my nervous head as dusk descended into another night, another meaningless merging, another attempt to find myself as I gave myself away.

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.